Re: haskell xml parsing for larger files?

2014-02-20 Thread malcolm.wallace
Is your usage pattern over the constructed tree likely to be a lazy prefix traversal?  If so, then HaXml supports lazy construction of the parse tree.  Some plots appear at the end of this paper, showing how memory usage can be reduced to a constant, even for very large inputs (1 million tree nodes

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.6.1 Release Candidate 1

2012-08-31 Thread malcolm.wallace
hscolour also fails to build out of the box.This is the Prelude.catch issue.Regards, Malcolm ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Re: How to describe this bug?

2012-07-10 Thread malcolm.wallace
Also, it is more likely to be a buggy instance of Eq, than a real loss of referential transparency.Regards, MalcolmOn Jul 10, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Christopher Done wrote:Depends what the real offending code is. For example, if it contains unsafePerformIO then it's not a bug. On 10 July 2012 12:

Re: How to install GhC on a Mac without registering?

2011-06-14 Thread malcolm.wallace
For use at high school level, I would imagine that you would want to build a special distribution anyway. One that for example already includes packages, such as Gloss, that would be useful in teaching children programming in Haskell without they having to go through learning to use cabal (which i

Re: OSX i386/x86 and x86_64 - time to switch supported platforms?

2011-02-01 Thread malcolm.wallace
MacOS 10.5 is still largely 32-bit.  MacOS 10.6 is largely 64-bit.  Both are capable of compiling and running for the alternative word-size choice, fairly transparently.  10.6 was released August 2009, but there are likely plenty of people still running 10.5.Regards, MalcolmOn 01 Feb, 2011,at 1